#in lieu of

[vikingsong]

It’s Holy Week, so in lieu of WIP Wednesday, I thought I’d share a poem I wrote on Ash Wednesday (2/22/23). Maybe it’ll be even a little bit as cathartic/encouraging for someone to read as it was for me to write.

Valley of Dry Bones

In this valley of dry bones I lie

Losing faith in the living

Losing faith like decomposition

One small decay at a time.

Deconstructing each breath

from skin

from sinew

from substance

until nothing is left

but a heap of bones,

broken and weary.

Did You really say…?

Are You still just if…?

Why would You…?

My trust is a hollow, dessicated thing.

Speak, Lord,

and tell these bones to live again!

Restore to me the breath of life

Strengthen the shriveled sinews of my trust

Remind me that Your body was broken

to make mine whole again.

[three-red-horns]

In lieu of green velvet couch 💚

Mmmmmm Green leather sofa

[luna-andra]

Nanami naturally puts on a little more weight in the winter months. For a man with his build, he has a bit of pudge when he's relaxed in front of you. But when he puts on that winter bulk, his abdominals are less defined unless he's flexing or sucking in. And you are constantly begging him to not hide any bit of it because God it's so fucking delicious. "Nooo, don't take your belly from me, Kento~" you whined as your arms snake around his waist to cop a feel. And when you have him naked and you get that rare chance of having him beneath you? You're damn right you're taking that golden opportunity to suck and leave love bites on all the places you can get away with. What a fucking blessing to have more of him, even if he feels internally insecure about it. But when you lavish him with that much affection, giving him physical and verbal reassurance, he can't help but fall harder in love with you.

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[luxurystark-jackson]

“i spent all that time trying to get through to you. dean calls once and now it’s hello??”

*uninterested* “yes”

“so, what, you like him better or something?”

“dean and i do share a more profound bond”

gay people really can’t confess their love normally they gotta say shit like “profound bond”

[kiivg]

.Rook.

[scottinaussie]

Alan Ritchson

April 2024

[inkyami]

Something wicked this way comes

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[cha-melodius]

Not the Hero

When Alex landed his first job as a stuntman, his dad had sat him down to pass on some advice. Don’t take on more than you can handle just to impress someone, he’d said, and never hide injuries. Always speak up if you’re concerned about safety on set. Make sure to always get enough sleep. And never, ever, get involved with the actors. He never said anything about directors, though.

(When Alex agreed to take a job doing stunts for a movie directed by his ex, all he wanted was to make it out in one piece. After a rocky start, they figure out a way to work together again, but that new equilibrium is tested when the film’s lead actor goes missing and Alex finds himself thrown into a world of secrets, blackmail, and people actually trying to kill him. Saving Henry’s movie just might be his most dangerous stunt yet, but can he play the hero, or is he destined to be the fall guy?)

E, 61k. Fully written, chapters posting weekly on Fridays.

Prologue | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9

[princip1914]

A little hopeful moment which I missed on the first watch, but which I think is so important. Nina and Maggie come to have their talk with Crowley. Now, we all know that Crowley is Maggie—yes, sure, Nina is sarcastic and suave and cool and calls Maggie angel—but it’s obvious that Crowley is Maggie and Nina is Aziraphale. Crowley even admits it himself in the very beginning of this conversation when he tries to justify meddling to get Maggie and Nina together:

“Nina needed rescuing.” Yeah, you know who else always “needs rescuing”? Anyway, moving on.

Nina says she just got out of a relationship and it would be a disaster to get into another one right away. And then this happens:

Nina says she hopes Maggie will still be around, but she knows she can’t ask Maggie to just wait while she figures out her own baggage. There's no guarantee. And then Maggie interjects—

The parallel between Maggie/Nina and Crowley/Aziraphale is so intentional as to feel heavy handed. So what does it mean that we get this exchange in at this particular moment in the script—buried within the conversation which is the catalyst for Crowley confessing his feelings, occurring in the lull immediately before the spectacular dissolution of everything the first two seasons were building towards?

“We could have been us,” Crowley says. Crowley walks out of the bookshop. Crowley turns off their song in his car. Whatever tentative blooming thing has been building between him and Aziraphale for six thousand years appears to be very clearly over. Aziraphale presses the kiss to his lips and knows there is no guarantee they will ever have a chance to be together. There's no guarantee that Crowley will ever want to forgive him, that he will keep on waiting for him.

But.

There is.

[tarobii]

TRANS RIGHTS STARLIGHTS!!!! 🏳️‍⚧️

I'll also take this opportunity to state in clear words: I am transgender. Non-binary. They/them. All that jazz.

This blog is a safe space for all my transgender siblings. We are who we are. 🏳️‍⚧️

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[sammygender]

girlcoded sam readings are like. his arcs are so tied up with control and bodily autonomy and sexual assault and otherness and cleanness and a desire for freedom and rebellion against oppressive masculine forces to the point where an examination of his show-long arcs looks like a thesis on The Female Gothic. he’s never afforded the respect or the power of characters like john and dean and is in fact narratively punished whenever he isn’t subservient to them. both the show itself and the fandom surrounding it treat him like dean’s bitch wife. he is textually compared to female characters multiple times, by the narrative and by dean.

and then meanwhile girlcoded dean readings are like. Eldest daughter core! (his father handed down ultimate control over every aspect of sam’s life once he died like a family heirloom)(he is THE patriarch). Yes he does the cooking yes he does the cleaning (which he doesn’t even…. and even if he solely did all the housework how does that make him Girl Coded unless it’s being delegated exclusively to him like its his role and he’s punished for not conforming to it… which is not happening…).

like girlcoded dean readings rely on stereotypes about women in real life. girlcoded sam readings rely on noticing how much the narrative constructed around sam falls into tropes used in fiction almost always about women. even things like his psychic powers! the way people are always swarming around trying to ‘corrupt’ him! the fixation on his purity and innocence! the two readings are very different things

[shoomlah]

A COUPLE WEEKS, BABY😎

[littleblondesoprano]

Happy 21st Birthday, Fluffy!! She’s officially a legal adult now!

[yeoldenews]

"and that would be awful"

(source: The Sabetha (KS) Daily Star, December 9, 1926.)

[hadesoftheladies]

it really pisses me off that so many people are not treating seperatism/refusal to marry as a legitimate preventative measure because that's what it is. more than a political statement, it is a practical action that safeguards (a lot of) women from femicide and domestic violence. marriage is a safety and health risk to women the same way walking alone in the red light district in germany at night is a safety risk.

but so often it's reduced to a debate about personal orientation, sexuality or how communities and the government feel entitled to women's reproductive labour. like can we please be serious, bc the casualty count in marriage globally and historically definitely is . . .

[fullcravings]

Irresistible Ube Mochi Cake Recipe